Most societies do not collapse because no one saw the danger coming.
They collapse because too many people saw it and decided it was safer to say nothing.
In this week’s “This Matters,” Bill Britt examines the price of silence and how fear spreads when people learn to live around lies, whisper truth in private and avoid saying aloud what they know to be real.
Drawing on the warning of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Britt argues that authoritarian habits do not survive by force alone. They survive when silence becomes comfortable, when lies become normal, and when courage becomes rare.
Because a free society cannot survive on private courage alone. It requires public courage.
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